There are growing concerns that increased coal seam gas production in south west Queensland which draws on water supplies could have serious downstream effects on the rare ecosystem of Lake Eyre. There are now calls for a new authority - like the one that oversees the Murray Darling Basin - to be set ...

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There's yet more disagreement over the Murray Darling basin plan. A group of scientists and economists has condemned the latest projects to deliver water to farmers, communities and the environment. And are some regional airports more equal than others when it comes to access to critical ...

Emma Alberici speaks to NXT Leader Nick Xenophon about allegations that the multi-billion dollar plan to save the Murray Darling river system is not working. Senator Xenophon is now calling for a Royal Commission into the scheme....

While the peak industry body, Cotton Australia, refuses to comment on revelations about water meter tampering in the northern MD Basin, the same can't be said of cotton growers. 450 of them have gathered for the industry's annual meeting and many have the view that a few bad eggs shouldn't soil the ...

Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has claimed this week's Four Corners program on water being diverted from the Murray Darling environmental flows is of being part of a campaign to deprive irrigators of water. The Minister made his comments in Shepparton, but they are at odds with what he was ...